保 — protect, guarantee
保
- Meaning
- protect, guarantee, keep, preserve, sustain
- On reading
- ホhoホウhou
- Kun reading
- たもつtamotsu
- Strokes
- 9
- Learned in
- Grade 5 of elementary school in Japan
保 in names
When I turn a name into kanji, I use 保 for the sound “ho” (ほ) or “po” (ぽ).
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Meanings and readings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG (CC BY-SA 4.0).